The cheesy French response to the Yellow Vests protests.

The article below by Thierry Meyssan is a fascinating glimpse of the contempt that the French elite have for the French people. As the Yellow Vest protests boiled up, Macron nearly resigned out of fear. He regained his composure and commenced to paper over, divert, and obfuscate what he could about legitimate popular grievances.

I'll call it "Modern Western Government 101" without much fear of contradiction. "Die, populist scum!" would be a more accurate description of the operative mindset. And, wouldn't you know it, but Macron removed immigration from the "debate" right out of the chute.

We don' need your steenkin' 'pinions! FOAD.

I can only say, keep it up, mothertruckers. Keep . . . it . . . up. Along with the intentional blinding of protesters by your security forces.

France is wound up tight as a drum, not unlike this country. I don't see any around who aren't clowns and who are capable of bringing about some kind of détente. As in the exact sense of that term. An economic implosion will make that irrelevant anyway. Some Sergeant Batista will take the stage I suspect.

"The slow disintegration of the Republic in France." By Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network, 7/12/20.

An entertaining read, no lie. I had no idea that there was such a vast exercise in having a national debate. Which quickly degenerated into "a debate."